US Endoscopy has released its VIA bedside endoscope pre-cleaning kit, according to an EndoNurse report. The single-use VIA kit includes supplies needed to pre-clean an endoscope immediately after a ...

More than 50 million endoscopies are performed yearly in the United States. The risk of acquiring an infection during one of these procedures is exceedingly low, because the current cleaning processes ...

Additional manual flushing steps and increased flushing volume of each endoscope channel, as well as the elevator recess area Additional raising/lowering the forceps elevator In addition, FDA has the ...

Current techniques used to clean endoscopes for reuse are not consistently effective, according to a new study. The findings of this study support the need for careful visual inspection and cleaning ...

Integrating a continuously operating ceiling-mounted UV-based air purification system into existing protocols for infection ...

U.S. health officials on Thursday issued a safety warning on a specialty endoscope that has been linked to the transmission of a drug-resistant superbug known as carbapenem-resistant ...